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B O T I E L U S with Joel Mason's ELTON JOHN tribute band |
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Botielus plays many instruments with other bands, too! Most celebrity names are impersonator shows unless specified as REAL |
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Elton John :Disney World Florida 2008 |
Billy Joel
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Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, & Wolfman Tulalip WA Botielus meets the REAL Keith Emerson & Joe Satriani! (JUST FOUND!) |
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Some past shows with photos no longer on-line have included: * Elton John in Peoria Illinois (twice!) |
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B O T I E L U S with Joel Mason's ELTON JOHN tribute band |
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Gig report
We played in a club called "The Groove" - big "high tech" looking disco, with nice stage, dance floor, and a few other cool little bars inside. We played 3 shows starting around 7:30 with 20 minute-ish breaks between. The crowds got steadily larger, and the last set was the best - TONS of people! |
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We got lots of compliments from different folks after the show. I couldn't stand on the piano for my solos since it wasn't a "Slamgrand" but they had a real baby grand for Elton (we had a $30k Steinway for our Montana show!). But was very cool, as I used my new wireless sax mic, and roamed the stage a lot this time (gingerly stepping around the front row's drinks lining the stage!). Before & after gig: Boy, was it a long flight to Orlando! They had a driver meet us with one of those signs, and they shuttled us to a doubletree hotel 1/2 mile from the Universal studios "City Walk". After dinner at TGI Fridays, Joel, Fuzz, and I walked over to scope out the City Walk and see if we could find where we were to perform the next night. NO ALLIGATORS were sighted L City walk is like a mini-Vegas - lots of people, and you can walk around with your beers and Zombies! They have a bunch of different bars/clubs next to each other. Found a HUGE open air stage with some crew types setting up/tearing down trusses, so I asked if this is where we were playing - "no, this is the stage for "Kool & the Gang", but they took us to our club, got us in (no line for us!). Then we just wandered around, popped into "Pat O'Brians" that had a dueling piano bar, and of course, Joel knew a couple of the players there (it's like the Mafia or something: every city we go to that has a dueling piano bar - Joel or James knows some of the players - and then they let them sit in, buy us drinks, share their groupies (ok, that was a lie!).Next day, giant yellow bus (no, not the short bus for us) is waiting to take us over to soundcheck - us and about FOUR other impersonator bands - let's see, there was ABBA, Supremes (including some real ones I think), that Margaritaville guy, Rod Stewart - if there were more, sorry. We had some minor "Spinal Tap" fun loading in thru the basement, then trying to find our separate stages - that was the only bummer of this: they had all bands playing the same time in different clubs, so we couldn't check each other out. But they had like 100,000 people for this giant private party. It was for some "home builders" group (I looked for our friends from Wausau, but couldn't find them!). OK, that's all for now….if you want more, you'll have to bug me, cause I'm busy getting ready for the big heARTy pARTy coming up soon J |
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B O T I E L U S with Joel Mason's ELTON JOHN tribute band |
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Gig report: Super fantastico! |
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